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The Trip We All Take
John 14:1-4,6
You’re going on a trip to a faraway place you’ve never been to before. You’re trying to get to a certain village, but to do so, you have to traverse miles of dense jungle filled with poisonous plants and dangerous animals. Could you make this trip by yourself? What if you had a guide with you? Someone who is familiar with the area, who knew how to deal with the wildlife. Who could go through the jungle without getting lost. Would you rather make this trip with or without him?
There is a similar trip that we all have to take at some point. It’s to a place none of us has ever been to before. The path is filled with all sorts of worries and concerns about what’s going to happen next. And above all, it’s a trip that once you make it, you never come back. This trip we take is death, and we all have to face it at some point.
Some people might place their trust in medicine and living a healthy lifestyle. Now, these are good things in and of themselves, but no amount of earthly medicine or balanced lifestyle can save you forever from the power of death. But what if there was a guide, someone who knew the way, who could lead you through death into a better life? The Gospel writer John records for us these words of Jesus found in chapter 14, verses one through six.
“Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God ; trust also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going. I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:1-4,6)
Because of sin all of creation and all people feel the effects of death. That’s why Jesus entered into this world. To live the perfect life we could not. To take our sin and bring them to the cross, to experience the punishment we deserve and to die. Jesus is not asking you to go anywhere he hasn’t. But because of what Jesus has done, we no longer have to fear what’s going to happen when we die. The joy of Easter is that Jesus has risen from the dead. That’s what these words are declaring to us, that Jesus is preparing a place for you, so that someday, when it’s your time to leave this world, Jesus will take you from this valley of sorrows to be with him forever in heaven. Cling to the promises of Jesus because there is no other guide and there is no other Savior.
